i assume it's more clear in other languages, e.g. in swedish it's "mjöl" for fine powders and "mål" for foodstuff.

this made me realize how weird the term feels in swedish, like in german it's "strange language" but i can't recall ever hearing it used.
We'd just say "another language" or something.

Do you have more hyperactive or attention-deficit symptoms? I'm attention-deficit and i can't recall in any way feeling improvement when sick, in fact it drives me up the wall because when i'm sick i can't stimulate myself properly and i get bored out my skull to a degree that is almost more suffering than the physical pain from the sickness.

it's frankly baffling to me that people don't just throw in a one-sentence explanation of why kids should do things, how tf are they supposed to learn?

Something i've come to realize is that an absolutely horrifying amount of my """autistic""" traits were just from not having had the opportunity to learn things, like when i was a kid i literally didn't understand that i was supposed to speak up if i'm in pain, i just sort of assumed that adults knew and didn't care.
Just in the past 5-10 years my life has been hugely improved by seeking out knowledge on my own, to the point that i now find informal social stuff so easy that other people are impressed.

It's why i'm an ardent supporter of the idea that most (or at least many) disabilities are almost entirely a problem with society, not the individual. And the depressing thing is that a lot of the adjustments to be made are really not that significant at all.

this is basically how the scentific process was invented.

"your shit sucks"
"yeah? prove it, fuckface"
"WELL HAHA HERE'S A FUCKING EXPERIMENT THAT PROVES IT, SUCK IT WHOPAOW"

as if our ancestors didn't change recipes themselves, yes i'm sure ol' great-great-great-great-gramma Beatrice used tomatoes

whatever you do don't fucking deal with the fae, they'll get you to sell your own teeth for a pittence

I feel like you're talking about a completely different thing, though. You can be no-nonsense but still nice to interact with, it's something i've gotten hugely better at in just the past like 7 years.

Like in the example of someone who got their job due to nepotism i'd just bring that up to people i trust and report it to wherever such things are reported, your union representative if nothing else. I wouldn't say "you're a nepo hire and i don't like that" to their face because that would be terrifying to deal with, but i wouldn't be silent about it either.

If your response would instead be to rage about it to their face, then; like others have said, i think that goes beyond just autism and into oppositional disorder or whatever.

the real test is what happens when you open the door again

slightly dried-out pizza is gourmet shit, it's like how salami is made.

i assume it's actually vital in places like the US, where roads aren't designed so much as they grow like a fungus and thus you can quite literally have kilometers of traffic standing completely still.

i'm not sure why "social cues" and "authority" would have much to do with each other, it's not like anarchists are socially inept, in fact being socially adept is kinda a core part of functional anarchy.

I dislike arbitrary things as well, but thanks to the magic of understanding how to be social i can just talk to people about it and explain why i think arbitraryness sucks ass, and they then treat me nicely and feel bad about my struggles since i'm so easy to deal with.
And it's not like i'm some 10 charisma bard, simply being chill and not actively unpleasant gets you 80% of the way. Even if you never make eye contact you'll still be seen as pretty normal if you speak normally and follow basic conversational etiquette.